Women supporters of religious political party Sunni Tehreek demonstrate in IslamabadReuters

The Pakistani schoolgirl shot in the head by the Taleban for promoting girls’ education arrived in Britain for treatment yesterday.

Malala Yousufzai, 14, was flown from Islamabad to Birmingham yesterday and transferred to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital for specialist medical care. She travelled in an air ambulance provided by the United Arab Emirates and was accompanied by her parents and an intensive care specialist from the Pakistani army.

She was shot in front of her friends as they made their way home from school in Swat, in northwest Pakistan. Two gunmen boarded their bus, asked for her to be pointed out and shot her in the face and leg at close range. She received emergency treatment in Peshawar before being transferred to a military hospital…